skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean by standard? These connectors come in various sizes and pin configurations, there is no standard to speak of.

There's only a small number of them, easily convertible with a passive adapter; but some of the ones with an ID chip do need to go away, preferably replaced by resistor-sensing for higher power outputs.

I don't think that I've ever seen laptops of different manufacturers to be able to use the same charger.

The actual manufacturers are Compal, Inventec, Pegatron, Wistron, etc. and they can definitely use the same charger.

The point I'm making is there was already a convergence towards a simple de-facto standard for laptops, one that has been in existence for over 2 decades. Yet the EU decided to force them to change to the most complex standard, with far more fragile connectors.
it wont work well bc ppl need enemies to fight for engagement. without that ppl just get bored
Ah OK, I had a different definition of "modern times" in mind. But if we use that version, "before modern times" Germany (or its equivalent at the time) was generally a net exporter of emigration.
“Cutting regulations” implies the current rules are intended to produce good outcomes, for instance, abundant large apartments for all. If that were true, I would agree with your skepticism, but I would urge you to consider that they might not be. The history of land use suggests that they were explicitly designed to exclude, and designed to raise housing costs. Early boosters in the 1920’s were not shy about saying that increasing housing costs was the goal. We should celebrate ridding ourselves of such “regulations”
How do they build as much housing as they want without land and utilities to support that? Are you suggesting some sort of libertarian slum that grows without support from the government?

More density is great, I’m not against that. Making the government support that is also a good idea (via transit and utility build out). But after it’s done, Toronto will probably only be as affordable as Hong Kong where that’s already done, where even a substandard cafe will set you back. Or maybe Tokyo, which is more sane (you can get a 2 tatami unheated room for $500/month, FYI I would love to live in Tokyo).
The US can't even make Puerto Rico a US state.
Let’s hope Putin does not watch this space!
> We are slowly being boiled to the point of no return. We need some kind of consortium for users to represent our interests otherwise in 10 or 20 years we will have very limited choice when it comes to computer technology.

For servers purchased in bulk by hyperscalers, OpenCompute has done a great job of coordinating owner requirements for hardware and firmware delivered by ODMs and silicon vendors in the server supply chain. Founded by Facebook, OCP built on the pioneering ethos of whitebox servers at early Google Search.

To create a similar organization for clients, one would need to pool enough buying power to influence the supply chain for "PC" (x86/Arm) client devices. OCP bypassed Tier 1 OEMs and worked directly with Taiwan ODMs. This worked because hyperscalers could implement custom firmware and do their own support. The closest existing client vendor might be Framework, which has not yet managed open-source firmware. Plus Clevo (coreboot) OEMs. DMTF [2] might have some interest.

A possible baby step towards open clients would be an OCP reference design for a "privileged access workstation" to access security-sensitive administrator web consoles for hyperscaler clouds. Include both a discrete TPM and an open silicon root of trust (OCP MS Caliptra or Google OpenTitan are both open firmware). AMD OpenSIL has promised OSS client firmware by 2026 and AMD mini-PC boards are everywhere. The building blocks are present for a high-integrity reference client with open firmware, under control of the client-owning cloud customer.

With suitable licensing, anyone from Tier1 PC OEMs or small vendors could create custom derivatives of the OCP reference client IF they retain mandatory core properties like open firmware and open silicon RoT. We could intentionally reboot the accidentally-open IBM PC ecosystem, at least for the small niche of secure cloud administration. If the OCP reference client is successful, it could motivate a new client-focused org for open client hardware.

[1] https://www.opencompute.org

[2] https://www.dmtf.org
You think so? I experimented with several toolkits. Some of my thoughts I wrote down here: https://github.com/orgs/kando-menu/discussions/58

I think there's a lot of unjustified prejudice against using web technology for desktop applications...
Unironically it’s the solution. The problem is that no one can make the investment.

If housing wasn’t an investment that would imply no returns, and thus no incentive to build and thus far less housing.
Public Companies Considered Harmful
They specified a brand of computer - I imagine they're just using equipment from another company.
Not really though. I've been using LineageOS+Magisk for at least 6 years and haven't found an app that worked that stopped working all of a sudden. I'm using all my banking apps and everything else without issue, and have been for a long time. Doesn't seem like the app devs are hellbent on blocking those willing to use Magisk.
Dell's rack servers are one of the rare servers which refused to die under continuous heavy load (HPC).

Their R815s after eliminating the early failures (leading edge of the bathtub curve) just trucked on. I used to run an OpenStack cluster on top of them till last April or so. At the end, either the CPU power regulators died, or their RAID cards just called quits. No other errors after 10+ years of service.

We also have their newer CPU and GPU servers. They just work. Scream occasionally due to high load, but not overheating or dying.

They're built like a tank, from our experience.
I never have seen the point of running locally. Not cost effective, worse model, etc.
Something isn’t right here; thread notif problems should have been solved a year or so ago.

And most apps are not element forks - eg FluffyChat, Nheko, Cinny are all great fully featured apps and separate codebases. The only Element fork i can think of is SchildiChat. Meanwhile matrix-react-sdk doesn’t even exist any more.

Are you on a stale build for some reason?
Not when the price doesn't capture hundreds of externalities.

If it was totally frictionless for everyone else to collect "impaired sleep" and punitive damages from the party-animals renting a unit, that would be in a fundamentally different economic/legal/technological universe than this one.
Isn't it cheaper to refuel than to have to lug enough fuel around purely by the weight of it and the additional energy required?

Plus your crew may need some downtime sometimes.
> Being made primarily out of wood it was cheap and easy to build, but it was HEAVY.

I'm not overly knowledgeable about the weather in Toronto, but heavy snow and heavy windows typically require things to be heavy so they don't get pushed by snow or wind. Maybe this is actually a feature of these type of huts.

Also, the huts in the article seem easier to move if what it states is accurate, that you can transport them in the bicycle lane legally and with bikes.

> without power or plumbing its not clear to me how actually livable these things would be.

What I've seen in my country (Spain) is that homeless tends to resolve to using tents, so if it's at least the same liveability but a little more protective against the elements, it sounds like an improvement.

The root issue of course isn't just that these people cannot find housing, but something about the reason why they aren't able to use the existing empty housing and how they became homeless in the first place. Be it because of costs, health, housing requirements or whatever.
"Mediterranean diet in the management and prevention of obesity"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S053155652...
I've often thought that this would be an actually useful use of Blockchain tech.
When I think about presidents in terms of what they did AFTER their presidential term, it makes me very sad that Jimmy Carter was not re-elected.
> its almost criminal to be recommending dedicated GPUs with only 12GB of RAM.

If you already own a PC, it makes a hell of a lot more sense to spend $900 on a 3090 than it does to spec out a Mac Mini with 24gb of RAM. Plus, the Nvidia setup can scale to as many GPUs as you own which gives you options for upgrading that Apple wouldn't be caught dead offering.

Oh, and native Linux support that doesn't suck balls is a plus. I haven't benchmarked a Mac since the M2 generation, but the figures I can find put the M4 Max's compute somewhere near the desktop 3060 Ti: https://browser.geekbench.com/opencl-benchmarks
The model of a post-Presidency. RIP sir, go be with your wife now.
I have my own domain, and have email set up so that any email to that domain goes to me.

You'd be surprised (well, nobody here on HN would be) to know how many times I tell a business that my email is "their-business@my-domain.com", and they ask me how I got that email address, whether I work for their company, etc.
If you're lucky enough to live in an area that still has small computer shops you can also get made to order if you aren't up to making one yourself.

In Silicon Valley you can go to Central Computer, though they aren't a tiny neighborhood shop by any means.

For laptops you might buy a Linux laptop.
The article doesn't attempt to throw him out or cancel him for the worst things he said and did, and nor did I.
Nothing stops them from just adopting the euro or dollar. It isn't common but some countries have adopted an external currancy.
>>not striving to keep a healthy body and healthy mind, not working on developing yourself, on elevating yourself, not wanting to become better, IS a moral failing

Whoa. How is it any of your business how I live my life so long as I am not impacting you or society in any way? I'm 72 years old and I spend my time the way I want to spend my time. I don't exercise any longer. And that will almost certainly shorten how much longer I live. How is that any of your business?
Despite buying a Dreamcast on launch day I only heard about this story in the last week or so ago in a YouTube comment with Jensen Huang congratulating sega on the new virtua fighter. Unfortunately he keeps calling it virtual fighter:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9NCp1BdWJG0&pp=ygUcSmVuc2VuIEh...
> Schekman, who calls Mullis’s Nobel a “complete fluke,” compares him to the man in the White House. “He’s the molecular biology equivalent of Donald Trump in terms of his personal behavior,” he says.

Priceless.

The key to that ahole's life is that his use of LSD damaged his sense of morality and comprehension of the truth. As glorious Finland have demonstrated, the ability to learn how to know when something is true or not is within not only our human capacity, but within a pedagogic system. On the negative side of this human ability, we can also choose to believe any horsesh_t our minds latch onto, as we can always to choose to reject any evidence we deem "inconsequential".

The general populace's inability to recognize a liar then makes them susceptible to charismatic fools and charlatans. That the power structures of our societies reward and protect those "accomplished" tricksters is another layer to the problem.

We are all the sum-total of the moral choices of our lifetime, which have an inertia in opposition to our ability to veer in a different direction.

As Don Juan tells Castaneda, the use of "power plants" (hallucinagenic drugs) is overall bad for the body and should be avoided. Don Juan only used them on Carlos because Carlos was so stubborn, and needed the jolt, if the book's premises are to be believed.
I consider myself a mediocre geek and a big fan of the look and feel of the DELL Optiplex 7020 SFF. Without diving into too many details, I typically buy around 3-4 of them yearly (i5 CPU, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB disk) and add an additional 1 TB drive. I always replace the OS with Ubuntu.

Do you have any recommendations for an alternative machine? I’m looking for a solid, reliable workhorse that could serve for years. My current DELL setup has never failed or let me down, and I’d like to find something within a similar budget that I can rely on for constant use for years.
It’s extremely expensive to be poor. Often you wind up paying a lot more over time because you never accumulate the necessary up-front capital to pick the option that will cost less over the long term. Terry Pratchett had a perfect example of this involving boots, look it up.

In the United States, it used to be that only the poorest people lived paycheck-to-paycheck, but now most people do. This means ever more people are subject to this “poverty trap” at every level of society: They can’t make rational long-term choices because they only have the capital and credit to make rational short-term choices.

Of course, since the least expensive options in most spending categories provide the least value for the money, someone is getting that surplus value—which Wall Street just loves, since it makes numbers go up.
Rest in Peace, one of the last good presidents of the US.
Show HN: WebGPU + TypeScript Slime Mold Simulation
I made this slime mold simulation to learn more about WebGPU and compute shaders. It's essentially a recreation of Sebastian Lague's coding adventure on the web with TypeScript.

I've linked a few video demos on the GitHub readme, and there is a playable demo on my website.

Using WebGPU has been great so far. The iteration loop (with Vite.js) is much faster than when working with Unity. This helps with quick prototyping, though Unity's editor scripts allow you to build more interesting user input tools.

I was also surprised by how good the WebGPU error logs were. They helped me debug most of my shader bugs pretty quickly.
Hong Kong has very little land. Toronto has plenty.

There are all sorts of reasons we might want to coordinate infrastructure with building, and I invite smart urban planners to focus on exactly that, on equitable ways to do that, rather than aligning with anti-city forces to block hauling that people want to live in.

Very little of today’s zoning was design to align housing with infrastructure. Most if it was simply designed to exclude and to keep housing expensive.

We can ditch the latter and keep the former.
Accusing organizations of fraud without evidence isn't great.
"But what are unions? And why do they matter?"

It's pathetic that they have to start with that question.

When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,

There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;

Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,

But the union makes us strong.

Solidarity forever!

Solidarity forever!

Solidarity forever!

For the union makes us strong.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo2SbjELxUY
this seems their website https://positive.security/ not sure where they host their code
You cannot use iCloud Photos without iCloud. Still not seeing the issue - anyone who cares about their privacy would just turn it off, problem solved.
Just join a church. The both of you. It really doesn't matter which one.
... and now FIDE has chosen to allow jeans in the remainder of the event. And it appears Magnus will play.

"The principle is simple: it is still required to follow the official dress-code, but elegant minor deviations (that may, in particular, include appropriate jeans matching the jacket) are allowed."
If you're going to adopt the Euro to get the benefits of improved trade with the rest of Europe, you might as well join its trading bloc and get votes on its regulatory bodies at the same time...
That’s exactly what’s meant by “make housing a human right”—the law, at all levels, would need to comport with its protection.
A Mac Mini with 24GB is ~$800 at the cheapest configuration. I can respect wanting to do a single part upgrade, but if you're using these LLMs for serious work, the price/perf for inferencing is far in favor of using Macs at the moment.

You can easily use the MacMini as a hub for running the LLM while you do work on your main computer (and it won't eat up your system resources or turn your primary computer into a heater)

I hope that more non-mac PCs come out optimized for high RAM SoC, I'm personally not a huge Apple fan but use them begrudgingly.

Also your $900 quote is a used/refurbished GPU. I've had plenty of GPUs burn out on me in the old days, not sure how it is nowadays, but that's a lot to pay for a used part IMO
The fix is to require residential properties be owned by individuals and place a limit on how many homes one household can own (3?) without incurring luxury taxation.

Then we can let the short/long term rental market sort itself out and also allow people to invest in real estate at a reasonable rate.
Why did the NSA not report this flaw to NATO before this became a standard? The NSA had differential cryptanalysis before anyone else. It is odd that they did not catch/report the problem.
Fortran has arbitrary-based indexing forever (as does Ada). The default is 1 but it can be specified as anything. I don't see why this capability is so rare.
Although on the subject of hyperscaler hardware and restricted closed ecosystems, AMD EPYC processors have that nice feature which allows OEMs to permanently vendor-lock the processor to their hardware on first boot, so you can't take a chip from a Dell server and stick it in a non-Dell server for example. If you're buying a random surplus EPYC processor you might not even be able to know which vendor it's bound to until you try it.
It's not a hard concept, but it is a stupid one. Phone numbers for example you can take with you when you switch providers. Email has the provider hardcoded into your email address, thus every new provider means you have a new email.

The Web still lacks a first-class concept of a user identify that you can take with you across servers.
Is it possible to query cloud watch to calculate the current cost attributed to inter AZ traffic ?
Lots of propaganda aimed at this man to undermine him. Still to this day people will say he was "a nice man" as a way to diminish his accomplishments and turn the conversation away from them.
I love what llamafile is doing, but I'm primarily interested in a frontend for ollama, as I prefer their method of model/weights distribution. Unless I'm wrong, llamafile serves as both the frontend and backend.
Discussion (71 points, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42543128
CCP is a closer translation of how the party name is written in Chinese. It has never made sense why they decided they would be referred to as CPC in English, when the original party name in Chinese reads as CCP.
They have low-kHz transmitters for reaching submarines. So, for many decades already.
Even if it was not cost-effective, or you're just running worse models, it's learning an important skill.

Take for instance, self-hosting your website may have all these considerations, but you're getting information from the LLMs. It would be helpful to know that the LLM is in your control.
Achieving this by cutting regulation would get you the other aspects of Kowloon Walled City too, the more horrifying ones.
I thought it would be Robert Trivers who had some rough spots in his academic career, but I was wrong! Trivers is in biology, which has no Nobel prize.

Trivers instead got the Crafoord Prize, which awards $500,000. See what Steven Pinker said about Trivers' ideas:

https://www.edge.org/memberbio/robert_trivers
The first talks had some audio issues, hope they got it fixed
Doesn't the income for the jacked up prices also accrue to that community though? IMO it is not respectable to take someones money and give them a visa then act like they are a problem or unwelcome.
Of all the presidents I've seen in my lifetime, I think President Carter might be the only one who felt genuine and didn't exhibit narcissism.
one’s degradation is another one’s advancement and who needs moderation services when you have “free speech,” right? /s

elon successfully got rid of 80% of SWEs because he wanted an entirely different platform (which he has now)
You are directionally correct but the top of the line chisels are in fact hand made in Japan and I suspect the same for knives. Lee Valley and some other higher end manufacturers make some damn fine chisels but chisels are hand tools and I would guess 9/10 woodworkers who use chisels will choose hand made Japanese chisels over any factory manufactured tools.
> And back when PCs were far more open, good old IDE was always an option too.

IDE is extremely slow, the connectors occupy a lot of precious space, and it hasn’t been used for modern drives for a very, very long time.

If anyone really needs IDE then they should get a USB IDE adapter for their use case.

Faulting motherboard manufacturers for removing ancient connectors is just grasping at straws.
You need sources for opinions now?
https://www.government.is/topics/foreign-affairs/iceland-in-...
This line of thinking (and EA in general) taken to its logical conclusion results in stuff like LW's famous "moral dilemma" about torturing someone for 50 years being justifiable if it prevents sufficiently many people from the discomfort of having a speck in their eye.
CBC is “free” in that anyone can access it and it is funded by Canadian taxes.
Can you elaborate on the not cost effective part? That seems surprising unless the API providers are running at a loss.
Absolute goofball stuff buddy.

You, “realist”: the solution to people successfully blocking development is to convince them buildings cannot and should not be beautiful

Me, in fantasy land: Here’s a specific example of a cost-effective, mass-produced neighborhood that is considered one of the most beautiful in the entire country, we should do more of that.

The more you perpetuate the myth that cost-effective building needs to be ugly, the more resistance you’re going to produce… obviously.

An imperative to build beautiful doesn’t actually necessitate committee after committee. Stop propagating myths that are destructive to your own priorities, lol.
I recall when Krispy Kreme came out with a donut shake that was 1800 calories for the large size. It’s crazy out there.
It's a form of institutional hysteresis. If a major change can get implemented by a simple majority, it has zero noise margin. If it requires (say) two thirds, then it has a noise margin of 33 percentage points.

I am still stunned that Brexit was left to a 50% + epsilon referendum.
It's funny how everyone in the West seems to know about China's "social credit score" and meanwhile, in China, no one actually knows what it is or if it exists at all. Probably everything you heard about it is wrong.

https://www.wired.com/story/china-social-credit-score-system...
With the exception of Italy's refugee crisis, which I agree is down to a failure of EU country to work together and take a joint responsibility, the rest are individual EU countries failing to govern themselves in a proper manor, and in some of those cases the EU stepping in is literally to only thing saving them.
The big mistake here is ownership of your apple devices is an illusion...
Money Can Buy a Longer Life–To a Point
> There need to be about four major players before markets push prices dow

Not at all sure that prices are the problem here, nor that markets can solve the actual problems.
Carter proved it's never too late to add a new chapter to your story if you're still alive.

He was much more influential as a diplomat after his presidency than during it. RIP.
High end automated processes can indeed hit extremely high tolerances, but that’s a trade-off on cost (give or take) and often not one the factory is making. I’m reminded of a story about GM, where the top execs would preview drive all the new models - except the ones that were given to the execs had been hand-tuned by engineers to fix the manufacturing slop, so the GM brass was convinced their cars were much better than they were.
The feature you're describing is only supported by BlueSky "for now". It isn't an essential element of the design of BS.